The year is 3,500,000,000 BC. The place is a rocky outcropping that juts out into a shallow, wave-lapped inlet on a landmass that will one day be called Australia. … atmosphere is filled with toxic gases, and almost completely devoid of oxygen. That will come much later, the product of photosynthesis by tiny organisms that will one day churn away in the primitive oceans.

But the ancestor of those creatures is already here. … Though based on reasonable evidence, the scenario just depicted is purely hypothetical. There are many such guesses about the precise nature of LUCA. The reality is that nobody knows exactly what the environment was like when life arose some four billion years ago. Instead of the hot water of a hydrothermal vent, for instance, LUCA might have lived in a warm little pond not unlike the one once suggested by Charles Darwin. Nor does anyone know what LUCA’s internal chemistry was like. It may have possessed unique features that have been lost to its ancestors over the course of several billion years of evolution and natural selection. More.

Unfortunately, the excerpt doesn’t tell us about Woese classifying the archaea, a whole new domain of life. Or that Woese regretted not overthrowing Darwin

One Reply to “Excerpt from A Brief History of Creation features Carl Woese”

A brief history of tIME was, I think, a original book that has boringly bred so many books ripping off its concept. here is another one.
Lack of imagination as usual.

History is not science. this history is not based on science or on history.
Its a brief fable.
Its silly to imagine the glory of biology creating itself from goo.
Its not intelligent however unkindish that is to say.